Poet Quote by Dorianne Laux Download Open image “Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.” — Dorianne Laux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to live better.' — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine. What is poetry! And you are asking me? Poetry...is you.” — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?” — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is,… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
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